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After 14 years and 27 deaths while being constructed, the Brooklyn Bridge over the East River is opened, connecting the great cities of New York and Brooklyn for the first time in history. Thousands of residents of Brooklyn and Manhattan Island turned out to witness the dedication ceremony, which was presided over by President Chester A. Arthur and New York Governor Grover Cleveland. Designed by the late John A. Roebling, the Brooklyn Bridge was the largest suspension bridge ever built to that date.
John Roebling, born in Germany in 1806, was a great pioneer in the design of steel suspension bridges. He studied industrial engineering in Berlin and at the age of 25 immigrated to western Pennsylvania, where he attempted, unsuccessfully, to make his living as a farmer. He later moved to the state capital in Harrisburg, where he found work as a civil engineer. He promoted the use of wire cable and established a successful wire-cable factory.
Meanwhile, he earned a reputation as a designer of suspension bridges, which at the time were widely used but known to fail under strong winds or heavy loads. Roebling is credited with a major breakthrough in suspension-bridge technology: a web truss added to either side of the bridge roadway that greatly stabilized the structure. Using this model, Roebling successfully bridged the Niagara Gorge at Niagara Falls, New York, and the Ohio River at Cincinnati, Ohio. On the basis of these achievements, New York State accepted Roebling's design for a bridge connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan--with a span of 1,595 feet--and appointed him chief engineer. It was to be the world's first steel suspension bridge.
Just before construction began in 1869, Roebling was fatally injured while taking a few final compass readings across the East River. A boat smashed the toes on one of his feet, and three weeks later he died of tetanus. He was the first of more than two dozen people who would die building his bridge. His 32-year-old son, Washington A. Roebling, took over as chief engineer. Roebling had worked with his father on several bridges and had helped design the Brooklyn Bridge.
The two granite foundations of the Brooklyn Bridge were built in timber caissons, or watertight chambers, sunk to depths of 44 feet on the Brooklyn side and 78 feet on the New York side. Compressed air pressurized the caissons, allowing underwater construction. At that time, little was known of the risks of working under such conditions, and more than a hundred workers suffered from cases of compression sickness. Compression sickness, or the "bends," is caused by the appearance of nitrogen bubbles in the bloodstream that result from rapid decompression. Several died, and Washington Roebling himself became bedridden from the condition in 1872. Other workers died as a result of more conventional construction accidents, such as collapses and a fire.
Roebling continued to direct construction operations from his home, and his wife, Emily, carried his instructions to the workers. In 1877, Washington and Emily moved into a home with a view of the bridge. Roebling's health gradually improved, but he remained partially paralyzed for the rest of his life. On May 24, 1883, Emily Roebling was given the first ride over the completed bridge, with a rooster, a symbol of victory, in her lap. Within 24 hours, an estimated 250,000 people walked across the Brooklyn Bridge, using a broad promenade above the roadway that John Roebling designed solely for the enjoyment of pedestrians.
The Brooklyn Bridge, with its unprecedented length and two stately towers, was dubbed the "eighth wonder of the world." The connection it provided between the massive population centers of Brooklyn and Manhattan changed the course of New York City forever. In 1898, the city of Brooklyn formally merged with New York City, Staten Island, and a few farm towns, forming Greater New York.


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Union General Ulysses S. Grant continues to pound away at Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia in the engagement along the North Anna River in central Virginia, that had begun the day before. Since early May, Lee and Grant had been slugging it out along an arc from the Wilderness to Spotsylvania and to Hanover Junction, on the North Anna River. Grant was doing what other Union commanders had failed to do since 1861: ensuring that the Army of Northern Virginia was in constant action to prevent them from retooling.
The cost in men, however, was frighteningly high. Grant had lost 33,000 troops in the fighting at the Wilderness and Spotsylvania. Worse, he could not gain the upper hand over Lee. As they raced along the arc, Lee had the advantage of moving along the interior lines, while Grant moved on the outside. As a result, Lee always had a shorter distance to the next point on the waltz around Richmond.
At North Anna, Lee beat Grant to the river and quickly assumed a strong position on the high, steep banks. Grant had made two attacks the previous day but each failed. On May 24, the Yankees again probed Lee's position but could not penetrate the Confederate defenses. On another part of the line, a Union brigade carried out an unauthorized assault by a general named James Ledlie, who was evidently drunk. Crossing near Ox Ford in the strongest part of the Confederate line, Ledlie's men nearly broke through before retreating. Surprisingly, Ledlie never faced any punishment, despite the fact that 220 men were lost in the charge.
The engagement at North Anna was small by the standards of this campaign. Grant was wise to refrain from an all-out assault on the Confederate position. However, he was not as cautious just a week later at Cold Harbor, Virginia, where Northern soldiers were butchered wholesale in a devastating attack on fortified Rebels.


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On this day in 1991, the critically acclaimed road movie "Thelma and Louise" debuts in theaters, stunning audiences with a climactic scene in which its two heroines drive off a cliff into the Grand Canyon, in a vintage 1966 green Ford Thunderbird convertible.
The road movie genre, which traces its roots as far back as Homer's "Odyssey," always involves a journey of some kind, in which the hero--almost invariably male--is confronted by challenges and learns something essential about himself along the way. Though the road movie historically didn't have to involve an actual road, the increase in the production of road movies in the mid- to late-20th century suggests the impact of the growing automobile industry and the public's fascination with the freedom inherent in a car. Two now-classic examples, "Bonnie and Clyde"(1967) and "Easy Rider"(1969), helped define and popularize the road movie genre for a new generation of viewers.
"Thelma and Louise," directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay by Callie Khouri, reworked the road movie genre by replacing the typically male leads with two women.
In this version, Thelma, played by Geena Davis, is a housewife repressed by her temperamental husband, while Louise (Susan Sarandon) is a steely waitress hiding a trauma in her past. Soon after the two friends set off in Louise's T-Bird convertible for a weekend vacation in a fishing cabin, events take a violent turn, and they are forced to go on the run. They drive towards Mexico, taking ever more desperate actions to elude capture along the way, culminating in their suicidal yet oddly triumphant dive into the Grand Canyon.
The iconic Thunderbird, first produced in 1955, was Ford's attempt to create a sports car that would also provide an element of luxury. From the beginning, T-Birds became highly collectible cars, and new and limited edition models were introduced each year to keep up with the growing competition. 1966 was in fact the final year in which Ford manufactured T-Bird convertibles; sales were slow, and their marketing department decided the line's luxury image was intact without the drop-top model. In addition to its co-starring role in "Thelma and Louise," the 1966 Thunderbird has made prominent appearances in several other films, including Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 teen drama "The Outsiders" and David Lynch's quirky, violent road movie "Wild at Heart"(1990).


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On May 24th, 2009. Stardust hit his 5 month Anniversary as a member of BGR!

Now3 years later. Look a what a monster he is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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This is awesome bro. Keep it coming!

OffTheHook Wrote:On May 24th, 2009. Stardust hit his 5 month Anniversary as a member of BGR!

Now3 years later. Look a what a monster he is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:truestory:

:yikes::yikes::yikes:

My personal favorite
H. B. Reese, American inventor of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and founder of H. B. Reese Candy Co. born in 1879

In case you need a reason to party
Holidays and observances

• Aldersgate Day (Methodism)
  
• Battle of Pichincha Day (Ecuador)
  
• Bermuda Day (Bermuda)
  
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Sarah (celebrated by the Romani people of Camargue)
    
  • Vincent of Lérins
    
  • May 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
    
  • David I of Scotland (never formally canonised but venerated in the Roman Catholic Church)
    
• Commonwealth Day (Belize)
  
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Eritrea from Ethiopia in 1993.
  
• Lubiri Memorial Day (Buganda)
  
• Saints Cyril and Methodius Day (Eastern Orthodox Church) and its related observance:
  • Bulgarian Education and Culture and Slavonic Literature Day (Bulgaria)
    
  • Saints Cyril and Methodius, Slavonic Enlighteners' Day (Republic of Macedonia)
    
• Victoria Day; celebrated on Monday on or before May 24. (Canada)
  • National Patriots Day or Journée nationale des patriotes. (Quebec)
    

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nky Wrote:Gabriel Fahrenheit, German inventor and thermometer maker born in 1686

take that Anders Celsius and all your metric system friends:biggrin:

These are great!!

I get smarter every time I get on BGR

Thanks for doing th OTH.
These are actually fun to read and im to lazy to actually go to the website lol.

In the night, he may go to the local bars and have a glass of beer, talking with his friends or just firlting with pretty or sexy girls who also come to have a relaxation in the bar. What is the most romantic thing that may happen in a bar? That should be a love story took place between a man and a woman who accidentally went to the same place to spend their holiday and then they again happened to go to the same bar of the local place.Then something must happened. For example, the woman split her glass of wine on the coat of the man. Or the drunk woman had a one night sex with the man. Of course, people seem to prefer the former.However, I myself take the latter as the more possible one..We need beach chairs .In the tourist attractions, they seldom have a rest but spend every minute in taking pictures and watch the whole scenery.While to westerners, vacation means leisure time . And leisure time means to have a rest and relax oneself. They may go to a beach not far from his home and take his swimsuit only to the place. So we need leisure table as well as camp bed .

tentqx340 Wrote:In the night, he may go to the local bars and have a glass of beer, talking with his friends or just firlting with pretty or sexy girls who also come to have a relaxation in the bar. What is the most romantic thing that may happen in a bar? That should be a love story took place between a man and a woman who accidentally went to the same place to spend their holiday and then they again happened to go to the same bar of the local place.Then something must happened. For example, the woman split her glass of wine on the coat of the man. Or the drunk woman had a one night sex with the man. Of course, people seem to prefer the former.However, I myself take the latter as the more possible one..We need beach chairs .In the tourist attractions, they seldom have a rest but spend every minute in taking pictures and watch the whole scenery.While to westerners, vacation means leisure time . And leisure time means to have a rest and relax oneself. They may go to a beach not far from his home and take his swimsuit only to the place. So we need leisure table as well as camp bed .

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When I talked with my friends about the dreaming life.Most of them would like to have a casual life at the seaside.A beautiful life with blue sky,clean waves,and beach,comfortable sunshine, Beach chairs , leisure table, camp bed,and so on.
The life in the beach seems to be so wonderful.I also like the casual life.But I would like have a casual life just at my hometown as the life at the seaside are so expensive.I also could have a small pool with beach chairs,leisure table,camp bed,all the things I like most.I think this one may be much more realistic to me.
All the above are my dream and my goal which I will work hard to realize it.

Sleeping bag is to sleep in the bag. Early humans are using animal fur production warm warm clothes and sleep use the mat, and so far include near the North Pole of Eskimo life, there are still people in use. The 19 th century explorer and the mountaineers began to different sleeping bags system tests, early sleeping bag with excellent of adiabatic performance by filling the camel's hair, then invented the hollow rubber cushions, and used in the 1720 s of the earth's poles adventure. 1861 Francis Fox Tuckett test first the Alps sleeping bags prototype, the mid 1760 s sleep blanket envelop design began to tend perfect, and close to the ground part has hollow rubber coating as the ground heat insulating layer.
We are a tent manufacture and also deals with Military tent which should be more tuff and good-quality.

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